Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.”
As quoted in 'Writing with Authors Kids Love : Writing Exercises by Authors of Children's Literature (1998) by Kathryn L. Johnson, p. 2
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Also attributed to Ernest Hemingway and others; the earliest definite occurrence of this yet found in research for Wikiquote is by Maya Angelou, who stated it in Conversations With Maya Angelou (1989) edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot:
I think it's Alexander Pope who says, "Easy writing is damn hard reading," and vice versa, easy reading is damn hard writing
The statement she referred to is most probably:
You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading
Clio's Protest, or the Picture Varnished (written 1771, published 1819) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“Writing is easy. It's just the typing that's hard.”
Nicholas Sparks
(1965) American writer and novelist
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“Easy writing makes hard reading.”
Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam, p. 128